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Why don't you just copy it directly from disk to disk? Create your new
partition(s) on the bigger drive, mount them to temp directories and run:
cd SourceDir; tar cf - . | (cd DestDir; tar xpf -)
so to move /usr to /newdisk/usr
cd /usr; tar cf - . | (cd /newdisk/usr; tar xpf -)
Much faster!
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Paul Tarvydas wrote:
> I wish to bounce my current 4.2 onto tape and then restore it onto a new
> (larger) drive. Then, after I have a copy of it on two drives, I will
> upgrade to 5.0.
>
> Back in my time, I used to do this with dump/restor and a stand-alone unix
> (i.e. booted from a floppy).
>
> I booted from the redhat boot floppies and looked around. I only found
> CPIO. I also found no reference to my hard drives nor scsi tape in /dev. I
> assume that I will have to do some mknod's after I boot from the floppies...
>
> If anyone has done this before with RedHat and would like to suggest a
> workable method to do this bouncing, I'd appreciate the help (and
> time/frustration saving :-). Specific incanatations of cpio would be
> helpful.
>
> thanx
> pt
>
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